Dear editor, I appreciated the response letter to the original one from last Wednesday’s paper and the time it took to write it.  His argument was that having chickens do not save you any money.…

A rare outbreak of sanity in Washington: House Speaker Mike Johnson will hang on to his job. Democrats say they’ll help defeat the GOP malcontents trying to oust Mr. Johnson, and to call this episode…

I received a similar call from Father Vince Krische, with whom I would later serve on the ethics commission. He also urged me to vote in favor of the abortion bill. When I asked him…

The small indulgence of chocolate is becoming a more costly one. Soaring prices for cocoa beans recently hit a record $12,000 a ton: roughly four times last year’s price. Many think they will go higher.…

It was an infinite loop.  As the water was pumped from the basement of the Community Rec Building in Riverside Park, it flowed right back into the rear entrance, where — you guessed it —…

BRUSSELS — On April 19, I watched an audience of European and American political officials and strategic experts pay rapt attention as U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told them Congress would enact a Ukraine aid package…

At Thursday’s meeting of Allen County Democrats, the media was universally criticized for devoting undue attention to unsavory political characters. “I wish the media didn’t amplify so many divisive ideologies,” said the Rev. Phyllis Stutzman,…

Recently as I drove my Silent Generation father-in-law on an out-of-town trip along I-70, he made a peculiar observation. “I never noticed this before but there’s plastic bags everywhere. My gosh. It looks terrible!”  Peculiar…

In a narrow vote this week, the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule that will ban the vast majority of noncompete clauses by U.S. employers, which have long prevented workers from switching jobs or setting…

Dear editor, I loved the letter to the editor in Wednesday’s paper about the chickens getting voted down by the Iola Council.  It’s hilarious to see people get so upset over this and bring up…